Some Democratic presidential candidates are distancing themselves from Barack Obama, who is still the party’s most popular figure.
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Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Noah Smith: America’s workers need a labor union comeback
There are two basic ways to improve the economic situation of the middle and lower classes. First, you can use taxes and government spending to shift income down from the top, either via direct transfers or through services like health care. Second, you can change the laws governing markets, with the goal of producing better […]
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Commentary: Democratic congressman shames his own constituents, and himself
Defenders of Joaquin Castro’s tweet don’t understand the line between criticism and harassment.
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Maine Voices: Let’s all push for an end to the hate-spewing that fuels gun violence
Voters, politicians and religious leaders should all recognize and respond when political rhetoric goes too far.
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USM president: In order to grow, university must address issues of equity, justice
Disciplinary actions, hiring policies and resource allocation should reflect answers to questions about access, safety, opportunity, visibility and power.
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Doyle McManus: Looking for the middle ground on guns
A Canadian friend who once lived in San Francisco told me this week, ““I could never live in the States again. Your cities are just too violent.” I’m in northern Ontario, bear country, where most hunters, farmers and loggers own guns. When they look at the United States, they think there’s something wrong with us. […]
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Maine Voices: Congressional delegation should press for nuclear de-escalation
Mainers collectively pay $257 million a year in taxes toward the arms race, exacerbating the detonation threat and diverting crucial resources.
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Michelle Shores, Waterville: Dropped call
Years ago, long before we had cellphones, back when we were still using that green rotary dial phone mounted to the wall in our 1970s kitchen, I remember the day I hung up on my mother. We were talking on the phone, me the know-it-all teenager, Mom the working mother trying to do it all. […]
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Annunziata Graziano, Brunswick: The hardest secret I’ve ever kept
A phone call can change a life. In this case, it changed multiple lives (four, to be exact). Growing up, I never felt like an only child. I was always surrounded by friends, but I craved the sibling bonds that I witnessed in the lives of my friends. After months and months of adoption parties […]
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Sharon Grigsby: How I found a little hope amid last week’s shootings
In the hours after evil’s latest assault on innocent people, I drifted about my house for most of Saturday. I felt unfocused, listless, numb. Most of all, I was unsettled by the fear that massacres such as the one that took 20 lives and forever altered dozens of others in El Paso are just another […]